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Yet the fact is that the high rate of exchange and the depredatory U-boat represented almost identically the same danger.

From The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page, Volume II by Hendrick, Burton Jesse

This was an aggression beyond the limits which they had professed to prescribe to their depredatory system, and it is not shewn that they had received injury at the hands of the Danes.

From History of the Buccaneers of America by Burney, James

Various were the measures adopted to check this depredatory spirit.

From A Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson by Tench, Watkin

It was not by a confused depredatory system that this first victory should be followed up; for their cause could only be ultimately benefited by improving their present advantages.

From Gómez Arias Or, The Moors of the Alpujarras, A Spanish Historical Romance. by Trueba y Cosío, Joaquín Telesforo de

In families living after a primitive manner of life, as this family did, the elder sons are invariably the companions of their fathers and accompany them on their depredatory raids.

From A Plea for the Criminal Being a reply to Dr. Chapple's work: 'The Fertility of the Unfit', and an Attempt to explain the leading principles of Criminological and Reformatory Science by Kayll, James Leslie Allan